Christmas 2008

We got an Xbox for Christmas. Can anybody guess what game we got with it. Okay for the non technical minds out there it's Guitar Hero(rock band). Its a lot of fun. Thanks Santa.

We left Santa some milk and cookies out and this is what we found in the morning. I hear Rudolph isn't the only one with a red nose.

Our fancy couch set. I was really hoping for furniture for Christmas.

Our tree.

Roy & Emma

On my way home from work I finnally stopped in at Mikes place to see my neice. She sure is cute.

Some Pics

Christmas Gangsters!

Ryan all dressed up to go to a dance at his school.

Mark all ready for his Christmas concert.

Ryan, Mark and Clara in Sean's sparkly clean room.

Jeesh Ryan, you should eat something, you're all bones!

Tiny Little Hands

Mark's Grade 5 class sang Tiny Little Hands and Silent Night. We couldn't see him for the second song, he was behind a tall girl. I have to say it was well organized, it started on time and was just under an hour.

Disney In Tokyo

One thing we did do in Tokyo was go to Disneyland. If you enjoy long lines and big crowds go to the Disneyland in Tokyo. We went on 3 rides. 2 hour wait for each ride. They did have a parade(that I missed). Thats a long story in itself. Everybody else got to see it.

Close up they are all photos of people smiling. It was pretty cool.

Comments on Japan

I have a lot more to show but we are getting ready to get on the plane. I am unsure when we will have internet again. I hope not too long. A guy gets used to having it around. The internet connection in Japan is super fast. To load all the photos to the blog only take as long as the click. You can watch a U tube video with out it stopping. We also went to Disneyland Tokyo. It rained most the day. The hotel is the best one we ever stayed. The mirror was heated so you can shave after a shower. The toilets in Japan are amazing. The beer is really good (Terry you'll have to come to Japan to try the beer). Anyways, sayonara for now......Hopefully, Roy and Carol's excellent adventure will be continued in Canada............Cheers!!!!!!!!! :)

Trip To Mt Fuji

One of our day trips was to Mt Fuji. We started off on a bus trip. The guy below was our guide. He had all these hand drawn maps. He was quite interesting. He talked about what we are going to do on the trip. He pulled out graphs on how wages work. Suicide rates in Japan and heaps more usless facts and stories about Japan. I loved all his stories. The trip as a whole was quite disappointing. It was very cloudy and we didn't see alot. With that said just looking at the country side was good and we all enjoyed getting out of the city.

This was on the way up the mountain. We made what our guide called an emergency stop. Good thing we did. This is all we saw of the peak of the mountain. You had to be quick. Within 30 seconds of getting off the bus the peak was gone.

Our trip went like this.......A 2 hour bus ride to the base of the mountain. We then stopped at a visiter center. We then drove up the mountain to 5000 m above sea level. We stayed there for 30 mins. We then drove back to a hotel by the visitor center and had lunch. Then took the bus to a lake and took a half hour ferry ride (We were suppose to see the mountain in the back drop). After that we took a cable car to a peak and thats were I got the photos below. After the cable car the bus took us to the train station and we took the bullet train back to Tokyo.

A cool building on top of cable car ride.

This is a temple at the end of our ferry ride.

Me and the kids on the ferry with Mt Fuji in the back ground. (behind all the clouds)

Which way is Toyko????

Having what was called a triditional Japanese lunch.

Mark loved the chop sticks. All he ate was the rice. For some reason Carol kept calling chopsticks, pork chops....Then she had me calling them that.

This was the menu.

And this was the food.

There was a temple on the mauntain and this was on the ceiling.

The map at the visitor center

Me on the mountain. I was trying for crouching tiger stance......All I got was a prancing princess look.

Ryan on the emergency stop with the mountain in the back drop.....Ohh, isn't it pretty.

At the visitor center. In the background is were Mt Fuji is suppose to be.

Mark on the bullet train enjoying some Coke.

The bullet train. There are some that go 300 Km/Hr. When they come into the station you have to stay behind the yellow line on the floor or you get yelled at over the loud speaker in Japanese and the tour guide gets pissed of at you for being so stupid. LOL....I just wanted a good photo.